Monomethyl histone H3 lysine 4 as an epigenetic mark for silenced euchromatin in Chlamydomonas

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2439-2453

  Van Dijk, Karin ^a   Marley, Katherine E ^b   Jeong, Byeong Ryool ^a   Xu, Jianping ^c   Hesson, Jennifer ^c   Cerny, Ronald L ^a   Waterborg, Jakob H ^d   Cerutti, Heriberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Doane College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYMES; GENES; RNA;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENETIC MARK; MONOMETHYL HISTONE; REPRESSED EUCHROMATIN;

PROTEINS;

ALGAE; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYMES; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHENOTYPES; PROTEINS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

ALGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE; LYSINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLASSIFICATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; LYSINE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 31444441661     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.034165     Document Type: Article

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